Group Production Techniques

Although being a small group had its disadvantages in terms of work load, I think it also had its advantages when it came to organising the group. From the start of the brainstorming stage we worked together as a group and from this it was really a case of assigning roles, establishing tasks that needed to be completed at each stage and dividing the tasks accordingly. During the actual production phase these roles became slightly blurred but it essentially meant that each team member was responsible for a specific area of production whether they were working alone or with other members of the group.

We used our team blog to keep everyone up to date on what had been completed and what needed to be done. Our project manager used this to inform the team of times and locations to meet.

As we were all working with multiple video, sound and flash files so it was important that our naming convention for files was the same for the whole group. We incorporated a system where we saved each file in iterations; _1, _2 etc and put our initial at the end. This meant that we knew which was the latest version and who was responsible for it.
Asset Management Blog Entry